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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

The Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates the GOP

Norquist

FrontPageMagFrontpage Interview’s guest today is Paul Sperry, a Hoover Institution media fellow and author of Infiltration and Muslim Mafia. The latter, co-authored with P. David Gaubatz, exposes the radical Muslim Brotherhood and its fronts in the United States.FP: Paul Sperry, welcome to Frontpage Interview.Sperry: Always a pleasure, Jamie. Quick congratulations on another commendable work, Showdown With Evil.FP: Thank you Paul.I would like to talk to you today about how the Muslim Brotherhood
penetrates the Republican Party and especially the latest disturbing
evidence you have on Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan in this context. As
you know, David Horowitz called out both Khan and Norquist on this issue in his speech at CPAC on Feb. 12, 2011.First, let’s begin with your knowledge of the Muslim Brotherhood’s
penetration of the United States in general and what you know about it
its front groups on our soil.Sperry: Thanks Jamie.As you know, the Brotherhood is a worldwide jihadist movement based
in Cairo. It’s the parent of Hamas and al-Qaida and the source of most
of the jihadist ideology and related terror throughout the world today.
After 9/11, FBI agents discovered the founding archives of its U.S.
operations during a raid of a terrorist suspect’s home in Annandale,
Va. The secret papers revealed that the Brotherhood, which was set up in
America with millions in Saudi cash, has a plan to “destroy” America
and other Western nations “from within,” and is using its agents and
front groups in the U.S. to carry out that strategy.The secret papers also revealed that virtually every major Muslim
group in America is a front for the radical Brotherhood, and they’ve
raised millions of dollars for Hamas and al-Qaida right here inside
America. They also control most of the major mosques, including the 9/11
mosque just outside Washington that found housing for some of the
hijackers and helped prepare them for their martyrdom operation.FP: What’s been done about them?Sperry: Until recent years, their leaders operated
with virtual impunity. But 9/11 broke the PC handcuffs on investigators.
Several major U.S. Brotherhood figures — including Abdurahman Alamoudi,
Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Anwar Awlaki, Sami al-Arian — are
now either behind bars or dead. Major front groups have been
blacklisted as unindicted co-conspirators. And a key front, CAIR
(Council on American-Islamic Relations), which we expose in our book,
has been banned by the FBI from outreach functions and stripped by the
IRS of its nonprofit status following our investigation. But the
handcuffs haven’t come off completely.FP: How haven¹t the handcuffs come off completely?Sperry: The Islamic Society of North America is the
leading edge of the Brotherhood movement here, yet it remains a formal
outreach partner of the government even though ISNA was implicated in a
criminal scheme to funnel over $12 million to Hamas terrorists. Its
president, in fact, just spoke at a Justice Department conference on
“post-9/11 discrimination.” Mohamed Magid also prayed with Obama in the
White House. It’s not just Obama though. I’ve seen the matrix with all
the names of the leaders in the U.S. Brotherhood’s Shurah Council. They
include people Bush prayed with after 9/11. The enemy has been inside
the wire for quite some time. It’s just making deeper inroads now.FP: Ok let’s get to Suhail Khan and Grover Norquist. What information do you have on them?Sperry: Let me start with some background regarding
Norquist. Though he’s known as the Beltway’s top antitax lobbyist, he’s
also a paid lobbyist for enemies of the United States. Prior to 9/11, he
was bankrolled by the General Masul of the U.S. Brotherhood — the same
Alamoudi I mentioned earlier — who also happened to be al-Qaida’s top
bagman in America.FP: Evidence?Sperry: A July 14, 2005, U.S. Treasury Department
press release stated: “According to information available to the U.S.
government, the September 2003 arrest of Alamoudi was a severe blow to
al-Qaida, as Alamoudi had a close relationship with al-Qaida and had
raised money for al-Qaida in the United States.”In addition, I asked an FBI official who worked the Alamoudi case to
elaborate on the information cited in the Treasury statement. He told me
(as I reported in Muslim Mafia) that at the time of Alamoudi’s arrest,
U.S. intelligence had intercepted al-Qaida chatter out of Saudi Arabia
lamenting that “one of our main financiers has been taken out.”I have no evidence Norquist knew Alamoudi was laundering Saudi cash
for al-Qaida at the time he was taking his own cash from him. But he
knew Alamoudi was, at a minimum, making statements in support of
terrorists. Now his financier and silent partner is sitting behind bars
as a convicted terrorist.FP: What kind of money changed hands?Sperry: As I reported in my first book, “Infiltration,”
Norquist’s old lobbying firm, Janus-Merritt, was a registered agent for
Alamoudi, and received some $40,000 from that dubious client. (Norquist
and his Muslim partner at the firm also represented the Pakistani
government on military aid.) In addition, Alamoudi gave Norquist at
least $20,000 in seed money to start up an outwardly Republican front
for the Brotherhood called the Islamic Free Market Institute, which was
run by Alamoudi’s deputy and later appeared on a JTTF threat matrix.FP: And that’s when Khan enters the picture?Sperry: Right. Alamoudi sponsored Khan — Khan being
the eldest son of one of the founding fathers of the Brotherhood in
America. Norquist got Khan into the Bush White House as the gatekeeper
for Muslims, whereupon he got al-Arian and other senior Brotherhood
figures past security. FP: What were they trying to do?Sperry: The top of their agenda was convincing the
president to eliminate the Justice Department’s use of undisclosed
evidence in deportation cases against Arabs suspected of terrorism. On
the eve of 9/11, Norquist personally went to the Hill and lobbied to, in
his words, “get rid of the secret evidence laws which have been used to
discriminate against Muslims and Arabs in this country.” After 9/11, he
and his Islamic Institute lobbied against the Patriot Act. He didn’t
miss a beat trying to deny law enforcement the tools they need to crack
down on Muslim terrorists, even after they slaughtered 3,000 Americans
and attacked the Pentagon.FP: Where’s Khan now?Sperry: Thanks to Norquist’s sponsorship, Khan has
also been able to infiltrate other Republican circles, including the
American Conservative Union. Meanwhile, he’s teamed up with Imam Mohamed
Magid, Obama’s Muslim outreach partner, to do interfaith outreach with
evangelical Christian leaders in the South.FP: How is that possible?Sperry: What Norquist does, and this is truly
sinister business, is dress up Brotherhood agents who underwrite him as
patriotic conservatives in order to give them political cover and gain
the trust of the GOP establishment. Then with the backing of duped party
leaders secured, he promotes these neo-Islamists to positions of power
inside government.His latest project is Imad “David” Ramadan.FP: Tell us about him.Sperry: Well, he’s running for the Virginia state
legislature with breathless boosterism from Norquist, which is your
first red flag. Last year, Ramadan signed an open letter to Republicans
in support of the Ground Zero mosque. He signed it with Khan and
Norquist’s wife, who happens to be a Palestinian Muslim.There are other red flags. Ramadan, who’s a Lebanese immigrant, is a
shadowy figure with suspicious holes in his resume. He says he’s
involved in various “consulting” businesses in the Middle East. He also
processes U.S. visas and green cards for Muslim immigrants. But the
source of his sudden wealth is largely unknown for someone who declared
bankruptcy. He’s given large sums of cash to GOP officials, to shore up
their support, as well as to his own campaign. Based on who’s been donating to his campaign, Ramadan would represent
the interests of Islamists should he win the Northern Virginia seat
he’s running for. Of particular note from the long list of his Muslim
contributors is a $5,000 political donation he received from something
called the Virginia Muslim PAC. Its president is Mukit Hossain. Turns
out Hossain also runs a charitable front for the Muslim Brotherhood in
Herndon, Va., called FAITH. A few years ago, Wachovia bank closed
FAITH’s accounts due to suspicious activity related to possible
money-laundering. A year earlier, the so-called charity received a
$150,000 donation from Brotherhood leader and Saudi bagman M. Yacub
Mirza, whose home and offices were raided by the feds after 9/11.
Hossain keeps his FAITH office in the same raided building. Hossain’s
benefactor was close to Alamoudi before Alamoudi landed in the slammer.FP: The evidence?Sperry: According to a federal affidavit (unsealed
Oct 2003) for a search warrant of Mirza’s Herndon, Va., residence and
offices, Mirza is president of SAAR Foundation, a suspected charitable
front for al-Qaida founded by Saudi billionaire Sulaiman Abdul Aziz
Al-Rajhi (S.A.A.R.), one of the original Golden Chain sponsors of bin
Laden.According to page 53 of the affidavit, written by special agent David
C. Kane: “I believe that one source of funds flowing through (Mirza’s
offices) is from the wealthy Al-Rajhi family in Saudi Arabia.” He cites
one transaction of $3,388,000, along with others in the millions. The
affidavit says Mirza has “signatory authority” over the bank accounts.
SAAR had an active account with Wachovia before closing it within weeks
of the 9/11 attacks. Some checks also were drawn on a bank account in
the name of Al-Rajhi Banking and Investment Corp., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Now let’s tie it all together: Hossain serves on the board of a
nearby mosque run by imam Magid, the ISNA chief working with Khan and
Obama. This Ramadan donor is also active in the Muslim American Society,
which prosecutors say is a key node in the Muslim Brotherhood’s network
here.Another Muslim listed as a donor to Ramadan’s
campaign is Norquist protege Ali Tulbah, who replaced Khan at the White
House when Khan landed a high-level spot at the Transportation
Department. Tulbah’s father helps run a Brotherhood mosque in Houston.FP: So Ramadan is part of the same Islamist influence operation run out of Grover’s office?Sperry: You got it.FP: How dangerous is Grover Norquist?Sperry: Very dangerous. Here you have a
“conservative” who built the Trojan Horse that the enemy is using to
infiltrate, sabotage and destroy the U.S. from within. Norquist is
helping the U.S. Brotherhood accomplish the “Grand Jihad” spelled out in
its founding archives. In fact, he’s helping pull them through the
gates. I think it’s fairly plain now that he knows he’s undermining U.S.
security, and that he’s doing so in a time of war.FP: So why is he still accepted in conservative circles?Sperry: Some Republican leaders are starting to
speak out publicly against him, lawmakers like Coburn and Wolf (although
Wolf endorsed his protégé Ramadan after Ramadan gave him $4,700 in
campaign cash). But others still see him as just a small-government
libertarian who wants to widen the GOP tent. Make no mistake: Norquist
is not some random deficit hawk eyeing the bloated defense budget for
cuts. Nor is he some innocuous misguided Ron Paul dove. He’s something
far different, far more pernicious. He’s virulently anti-military,
anti-borders, anti-security. He’s a saboteur aiding and abetting groups
hostile to U.S. interests. And now that he’s married to a Muslim, I
doubt money is the only motivating factor behind his decidedly
anti-American behavior.If by now Republicans can’t smell a rat — a Pied Piper of rats, no
less — they have failed miserably in their constitutional duty to
“defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.” If the
Republican Party can’t stop an Islamist Fifth Column within its own
ranks, my word, we’re all doomed.FP: What’s the status of CAIR’s “trespassing” suit
against your co-author and his son, Chris, who snuck behind enemy lines
as a CAIR intern and walked out with boxes of incriminating evidence
that CAIR ordered him to shred?Sperry: The most extraordinary thing about that complaint — and so far only Politico.com
has picked up on this angle — is that CAIR never defends itself against
the book’s claims, never alleges libel. It stipulates everything in
“Muslim Mafia” to be true — which is why in its complaint, it seeks to
confiscate all copies of “Muslim Mafia” in an attempt to censor the
book. Of course, it cannot dispute its own internal documents, which are
so damning that federal prosecutors have seized them, several boxes
full, as part of a grand jury investigation of CAIR. Still, it’s highly
newsworthy given the seriousness of the charges in the book.CAIR has hit several potholes in filing its case. First it filed
under a false name and had to refile. Then it ran out of money and had
to replace its outside lawyers with a CAIR legal staffer who has a
glaring personal conflict, given her role in overseeing the destruction
of evidence Chris tried to preserve while working inside CAIR’s offices.
Then CAIR failed to produce for the court a confidentiality agreement
it claims Chris signed. Even so, the Clinton-appointed judge, who has
ruled in favor of Gitmo detainees, has let the case go forward, and the
defense is looking forward to deposing CAIR leaders. It will be the
first time Nihad Awad, for one, will have to explain, under oath, why he
attended a secret meeting with Hamas leaders in Philly just months
before forming CAIR.What’s more, CAIR’s executive director will have to explain why CAIR,
if it’s not Hamas, would appear on a Hamas meeting agenda. The
smoking-gun exhibit is reproduced in the appendix of “Muslim Mafia.”
It’s a 1994 meeting agenda listing CAIR among member “organizations” of
the U.S. “Palestine Committee” of Hamas. CAIR was put in charge of
“coordination” among the Hamas front groups.This document — in addition to others, including ones unearthed from CAIR’s own files –speaks
materially to CAIR being founded by Hamas, controlled by Hamas, and
carrying out Hamas’ agenda inside the United States. So stay tuned for
the deposition transcripts.FP: Paul Sperry, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.